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[Subsidiary]
Authorized persons only may use explosives for blasting. L.N. 104/67.
CAP. 295] Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations
47. No person shall-
(a) prepare any charge for blasting or fire any charge unless he is in possession of a valid mine blasting certificate or is otherwise authorized by the Authority; or
(b) cause or permit any person who is not in possession of a valid mine blasting certificate or otherwise authorized by the Authority to prepare any charge for blasting or fire any charge.
Smoking not permitted while charges are being prepared. Persons engaged in preparing charges not to carry matches, etc. Removal of explosives for blasting. Preparing of charges for blasting.
[1983 Ed.
48. [Revoked, L.N. 21/71]
49. [Revoked, L.N. 104/67]
50. No person shall smoke at or near any blasting site while explosives are being removed from a store thereat or while charges are being prepared for blasting or are being laid.
51. No person engaged in preparing charges or handling explosives at any blasting site shall carry about his person any metal object or other articles intended or liable to create flame or sparks, except such articles as are required by him expressly for the purpose of igniting fuses.
52. (1) When removing explosives from a store at a blasting site for the purpose of blasting-
(a) gunpowder shall be placed in a container fitted with a close-fitting lid and made of rigid, impermeable, non-ferrous material; and
(b) detonators and fuses shall not be carried in the same container as other explosives.
(2) No explosives shall be removed from any store for blasting except under the personal supervision of an authorized shot firer.
(3) Any explosive not used or destroyed shall be returned to the store on completion of the blasting.
53. When charges are prepared for blasting-
(a) detonators shall not be crimped on to fuses in or near any explosives store;
(b) detonators shall not be crimped to fuses otherwise than with a crimping tool;
(c) not more than one detonator shall be inserted in any primer charge;
(d) no hole shall be made in any cartridge of explosive otherwise than by the use of a non-ferrous pricker.